Application of rectangular and elliptical dielcore feed horns toelliptical reflector antennas

The pattern characteristics of elliptical reflector antennas are investigated when they are fed by rectangular and elliptical horns partially filled with a dielectric. The bandwidth characteristics of these dielcore horns are superior to those of their corrugated horn counterparts. Representative reflector patterns are computed to properly demonstrate the utility of these feeds for reflector antennas with elliptical apertures. This reflector antenna exhibits high efficiency and low cross polarization, and may be suitable for radar and satellite antenna applications. The antenna configuration may become useful in relatively small antennas where more than 10% cross-polar bandwidth is required. The efficient dielcore horns may also be used as feeds for elliptical nonshaped dual-reflector antennas     

Wide-band planar monopole antennas

The circular disc monopole (CDM) antenna has been reported to yield wide-impedance bandwidth. Experiments have been carried out on a CDM that has twice the diameter of the reported disc with similar results. New configurations are proposed such as elliptical (with different ellipticity ratios), square, rectangular, and hexagonal disc monopole antennas. A simple formula is proposed to predict the frequency corresponding to the lower edge of the bandwidth for each of these configurations. The elliptical disc monopole (EDM) with ellipticity ratio of 1.1 yields the maximum bandwidth from 1.21 GHz to more than 13 GHz for voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR)<2     

Broad-band elliptical beamshape horns with low cross polarization

Horn antennas with an elliptical beam and low cross polarization are discussed. A new class of elliptical-beamshape horns has been investigated. The horns are based on the dielectric core approach, using a dielectric core inside a smooth-walled horn. Horns with rectangular as well as elliptical cross sections have been studied. Experiments show that they have considerably larger cross-polar bandwidth than that obtained from corrugated horns with an elliptical beam. They are also potentially much cheaper to manufacture     

Ultrawideband Printed Elliptical Monopole Antennas

Parametric study of ultrawideband printed elliptical monopole antennas have been presented. Design curve for the length of the feed transmission line for various lower band edge frequencies has been generated. Variation of bandwidth with ellipticity ratio of these configurations has also been studied. Experiments have been performed to measure bandwidth and radiation patterns of these configurations, which tally well with simulated results. The elliptical configuration with ellipticity ratio of 1.1 gives ultrawide impedance bandwidth ratio of 12.4:1 as compared to 10.2:1 of the circular monopole antenna. This antenna introduces minimum ringing and distortion/dispersion of the pulse in time domain     

频率可重构超宽带天线研究

超宽带天线和可重构天线是当今天线领域研究的热点。将可重构天线技术应用到超宽带天线设计中,讨论了频率可重构超宽带天线的设计思路。以印刷单极子椭圆天线为原型,给出了两个可重构天线的具体结构,并对天线进行了可重构带阻设计,避免与相关频段之间的干扰。仿真结果表明:重构后天线Ⅱ的低频获得了扩展,其相对尺寸的长和宽分别减小到最大工作波长的0.116倍和0.087倍,工作频段为0.174～10.9GHz,可重构阻带为5.1～5.95GHz,带宽比可高达62:1.     

Time-Domain Circularly Polarized Antennas

The transient properties of short-pulsed elliptically/ circularly polarized antennas, namely, the transmitting and receiving effective heights, are introduced. Due to the pulsed temporal dependence of the radiation pattern, an instantaneous axial ratio is introduced as a quality measure of the polarization performance. For these antennas, it is shown that the trace of the tip of the electric-field polarization vector in time depends on the pulse-width (bandwidth) regime of the excitation signal. Only for quasi-monochromatic or narrow-band excitations is a “pure” elliptical/circular trace achieved (i.e., axial ratio approaching unity for circular polarization). For short-pulsed excitations, a deformation of the elliptical/circular polarization vector trace is obtained due to a Hilbert-transform dependence in the antenna's effective heights and the finite duration pulsed-envelope. A remedy for that deformation, for circular polarization, is obtained by using an array of sequentially rotated circularly polarized antenna elements, which extends the temporal duration for which an instantaneous axial ratio lower than some prescribed value is obtained beyond that of a single antenna.      

Ultra Wideband Co-planer Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Applications

In this paper, a comparative study of co-planar gap coupled rectangular and elliptical microstrip patch antenna is presented. It is analyzed by using circuit theory concept. The proposed antennas show ultra wideband operations which depend on dimensions of the patches, gap between them as well as air gap thickness. It is observed that the performance of gap coupled elliptical patch antenna is better than that of rectangular patch antenna while the area of rectangular and elliptical patches is same. The bandwidth of proposed rectangular patch antenna is found to be 50.7 % with average gain of 6.5 dBi while for elliptical patch antenna the bandwidth and gain further improves up to 57.6 % and 9.5 dBi respectively. The theoretical results are in good agreement with the simulated results obtained from IE3D simulation software.     

The Electrically Small Elliptical Loop with an Oblate Spheroidal Core

The fundamental properties of an electrically small elliptical loop wound on an oblate spheroidal core are calculated using quasi-static theory. Closed-form expressions are derived for the elements of a complete equivalent circuit, including the inductance and capacitance, and radiation, conductor, and core-loss resistances. It is shown that the bandwidth and efficiency are greatly increased by the use of a ferrite core. Losses in the core are computed for two low-loss ferrites. Although the primary objective is to simplify the design of a transmitting antenna for use in the lower part of the HF band, 2-4 MHz, the theory presented is equally valid for the design of receiving antennas and for other frequencies.     

宽带毫米波微带天线的设计与分析

根据微带天线的设计技术要求,介绍了微带天线带宽的影响因素。在矩形毫米波微带天线设计与分析的基础上,分别设计出 C 型和 W 型两种宽带毫米波开槽微带天线。利用仿真软件对3 种天线的输入回波损耗、驻波系数、相对带宽和方向性等技术参数进行仿真优化和比较分析。仿真与实验结果表明,3 种天线的设计均满足技术要求,C 型和 W 型开槽微带天线较矩形微带天线的相对带宽大幅提高,且具备良好的定向辐射特性。     

宽波束±45°双线极化偶极子天线阵列设计

针对宽波束天线在移动通信中的应用,实现偶极子阵列天线的宽角域扫描覆盖,设计了一款宽波束天线单元以及1×16相控线阵。采用正交对称振子结构实现±45°方向辐射,振子采用椭圆环结构实现了宽阻抗带宽和宽波束,通过加载梯形结构降低了频段和实现小型化。实测结果表明,天线单元在6.425～7.125 GHz的频带内电压驻波比小于1.3,具有38.8%的相对阻抗带宽,在工作频带内其端口隔离度优于28 dB,3 dB波束宽度在频带内均大于126°,能够很好满足现阶段对阵列天线小型化、宽频带以及宽角域扫描的要求,在移动基站等领域有广阔的应用前景。     

UWB天线的宽带化技术及其发展

在现代通信技术中,为了实现通信保密、排除干扰、提高通信效率等,超宽带系统得到了大力发展,然而,在一定程度上却受制于系统中超宽带天线的阻抗带宽。详细介绍了展宽天线阻抗带宽的4种方法,包括渐变阻抗方法、分形几何方法、微带天线开槽方法和非频变结构方法,其中分形几何方法由于其几何结构的自相似性使得其贴片电流分布具有自相似性,从而导致天线的多频点谐振,有效拓展了天线带宽。上述4种天线尽管作用原理互不相同,但在超宽带天线的工程应用中,研究者可将这些方法单独或同时应用于天线结构设计,使得天线既能保持良好的方向性和增益等性能,又能获得较大带宽。     

Design of a compact planar wide band antenna family

A new family of compact planar wide band antennas is proposed. These simple and planar antennas have stable omnidirectional patterns and flat gain in the whole of bandwidth. Five types of these antennas are designed and simulated to clarify the ability of these introduced antenna family. Also, one of these antennas is fabricated and tested. The simulation and the measurement results are in good agreement. The measurement results show that this antenna works between 1.91 and 5.25 GHz (93.3% bandwidth) and it has a very compact dimensions. Also, the antenna analysis results show that the antenna center frequency and bandwidth can easily controlled by changing the scale factor and section factor, respectively. Finally, the antennas comparison results with the references verify the capability and power of them.     

Design and performance of small printed antennas

Electrically small microstrip patches incorporating shorting posts are thoroughly investigated. These antennas are suitable for mobile communications handsets where limited antenna size is a premium. Techniques to enhance the bandwidth of these antennas are presented and performance trends are established. From these trends, valuable insight to the optimum design, namely broad bandwidth, small size, and ease of manufacturing, is given     

基于遗传算法的微带天线优化

微带天线具有质量轻、体积小和易于制造等优点,已广泛应用于个人无线通信中。文中将遗传算法和HFSS-Matlab-API接口程序应用到微带天线优化中,设计了一套基于遗传算法和HFSS的天线优化方案。针对微带天线带宽窄的缺点,成功利用该方案优化出了一种宽带E形微带天线的尺寸以及馈电位置,带宽由一般微带天线约5%展宽到30%左右。     

Design of electrically small planar antennas using inductively coupled feed

A class of electrically small planar antennas with an inductively coupled feed structure is proposed. The antennas are optimised using the Pareto genetic algorithm. These antennas are self-resonant and capable of good efficiency and bandwidth performance without any additional matching networks. Several prototypes are fabricated and measured and the results agree well with simulation. A lumped element circuit model is presented to explain the operating principle of these antennas.     

Bandwidth Limitations on Linearly Polarized Microstrip Antennas

The Bode-Fano integral can be used as an objective tool for assessing the bandwidth of antennas, and especially schemes for bandwidth improvement. Results for U-slot and E-slot dual resonant patch antennas suggest that the Fano integral is invariantly related to the overall volume. The Bode-Fano and Youla theories of broadband matching have been applied to the narrowband and wideband lumped equivalent circuit of microstrip antennas to calculate the maximum achievable return loss-bandwidth product of linearly polarized microstrip antennas. Curves are presented showing the relation between the antenna bandwidth, maximum achievable return loss, and parameters of the equivalent circuit. It has been shown that creating parallel slots on the patch despite all potential advantages, may reduce the potential bandwidth of patch antennas.      

A New Class of Miniature Embedded Inverted-F Antennas (IFAs) for 2.4 GHz WLAN Application

A new class of miniature printed embedded inverted-F antennas are proposed for operation in the 2.4–2.485 GHz wireless local-area network band. One of the proposed antennas on FR4 substrate (dielectric constant = 4.4) measures 9.2 mm by 4.1 mm and has a bandwidth of 3.5%. The peak gain of this antenna is 1.4 dBi. An overall size reduction of 70% is achieved compared to a conventional inverted-F antenna. Effects of dielectric loss tangent and material conductivity on the bandwidth and efficiency of these antennas are also investigated. Finally, two embedded antenna elements are analyzed to demonstrate the feasibility for a decoupled antenna pair consisting of switched and combining diversity schemes.     

A New Ultra-Wideband Omnidirectional Antenna [Antenna Designer's Notebook]

The necessity for ultra-wideband and onmidirectional antennas has caused an increase in the use of these kinds of antennas in military and industrial applications. The primary examples of these antennas are the dipole and monopole (if a half-space is to be illuminated). The problem with these onmidirectional antennas is their narrow bandwidth. We can use a plate instead of a string of wire in order to solve this problem [1]. After this, the circular-disc antenna (Figure 1) [2], the half-disc antenna (Figure 2) [3], and the planar inverted-cone antenna (PICA) (Figure 3) were proposed [4].     

A Novel Miniature Broadband/Multiband Antenna Based on an End-Loaded Planar Open-Sleeve Dipole

Open-sleeve dipoles are versatile antennas primarily because they have several design parameters that can be varied to achieve a wide range of VSWR performance and operating bandwidth. By properly adjusting their parameters, it is possible to create versions of these antennas that have either a broadband or a dual-band response. In this paper, a new variation of the conventional open-sleeve dipole antenna is introduced, which we call an end-loaded planar open-sleeve dipole (ELPOSD). This configuration provides a degree of miniaturization while retaining a comparable bandwidth in terms of the VSWR response to that of conventional open-sleeve dipoles. Several designs are presented for the conventional and end-loaded configurations that demonstrate the VSWR and miniaturization capabilities of this class of antennas. Measured results have been compared with simulations and found to be in good agreement for an end-loaded planar open-sleeve monopole     

Novel design of broad-band stacked patch antenna

A novel broadband stacked E-shaped patch antenna is proposed in this paper. The proposed antenna has an input impedance bandwidth of about 38.41%, better than the conventional E-shaped microstrip patch antenna, which has an input impedance bandwidth of 33.8%. Through the use of the washer on the probe of the stacked patch antenna, the input impedance bandwidth is improved further to 44.9%. The radiation patterns are found to be relatively constant throughout the whole band. Comparisons of these antennas are presented in this paper.